HIstory
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In fiction: The great cloudburst and landslide of September 18, 1880 in Nainital
Namita Gokhale
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Bombay is better than Calcutta: Impressions of a US novelist in early 20th-century India
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘The Indians’: Historians tell the many histories of India with humanness and scholarly objectivity
Urmi Chanda
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Who was William Borden, the American who helped take libraries to every corner of Baroda?
Anu Kumar
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The story of how Hindus stopped distrusting biscuits and began eating them
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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By obsessing about the past instead of the future, India is weakening its Constitutional ideals
Bhopinder Singh
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‘India’s Secret War’: A sensitive account of India’s BSF joining Bangladesh’s fight for liberation
Ankush Banerjee
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War: The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 proved that nuclear confrontation can be devastating
Gwynne Dyer
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After suppressing an Egyptian revolution, the British wanted to exile its leader to India
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How Sumatra became a popular destination for Sikh immigrants in the 19th century
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘Our talks will be of lasting value to me’: When Kwame Nkrumah visited Nehru’s India
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Chicken paté with curry powder, anyone? The strange history of ice cream flavours
Lindsay Middleton, The Conversation
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While serving the poor, this ‘American in khadi’ ended up shaping the economy of Himachal Pradesh
Anu Kumar
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Principle over prestige: When India forfeited a Davis Cup final to Apartheid South Africa
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How did the advent of British rule after the Anglo-Burmese War change life in the Naga hills?
Samrat Choudhury
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‘City of Stolen Magic’: Reality-inspired fantasy fiction tells children about ills of colonialism
Rati Girish
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August nonfiction reading list: Public and private stories that make India and Indians
Sayari Debnath
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Principle over prestige: When India forfeited a Davis Cup final to Apartheid South Africa
Ajay Kamalakaran
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What role did the medical sciences play in the development of Islamic civilisation?
Firas Al-Khateeb
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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra reimagines history through voices from the past in his new book of poetry
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra